What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.”
“Good-nature and good-sense must ever join.
To err is human, to forgive divine.”
“All seems infected that the infected spy,
As all looks yellow to the jaundic’d eye.”
“Fear not the anger of the wise to raise;
Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.”
The greatest conciseness is visible in his epigrams and in his compliments:—
“A vile encomium doubly ridicules:
There’s nothing blackens like the ink of fools.”